Sword Art Online (light novel)
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makoa69 said: kamikaze_1996 said: makoa69 said: kamikaze_1996 said: makoa69 said: I don't really understand how 'skills' work here. They're breathing, eating, sleeping, walking around, etc in that world right? Why would you need a toggle choice in your menu to be physically capable of putting a second sword in your other hand? That makes no sense to me whatsoever. thats not the point, you can put a second sword on your hand but you won't be able to activate dual wielded sword skills, if your current attack pattern is set to 1 handed sword skills, it will imbalance the system and your sword skills will be disrupted, you would need to have dual blades as one of your options to use it Are you implying that all the moves they do, like jump dodging, blocking with the sword, etc are all skills they acquired in their toggle menu? I just assumed that when Kirito fights he's just swinging a sword around based on his own sword fighting abilities learned while existing in the the virtual world. If a person who already was a master swordsman in real life entered the game, he/she would be overpowered. If your fighting abilities are restricted to only what you've attained in your toggle menu, that saps away a ton of the freedom one could have in the SAO world. Isn't the 'realness', and 'freedom' the only reasons to play a VR MMO? The same thing goes for equipping stuff. Say your friend has passed out and you're protecting him when your sword gets broken. If I had full freedom and realness granted to me, I should either be able to fight barehanded with my own knowledge of boxing/karate/muay thai, whatever, or I could dash toward my friend and grab his weapon and fight with that. If skills and equipping are restricted in SAO, then I can do neither of those choices. sorry for the late reply, i was a little busy you misunderstand my point, what i meant was that you can't activate dual bladed skills such as starburst stream without dual blades as one of your slots you can pick up a second sword and attack but you won't be able to activate sword skills which is a bad idea because sword skills are the best means of offence and damage But what is starburst stream? I assumed it was just a name Kirito coined himself, the move being just slashing a bunch of times really fast. If starburst stream is a 'skill' Kirito can select from his toggle menu, then who's to say 'slash right', 'forward jab', 'sidestep', etc aren't also moves from the toggle menu? My confusion is simply this: I don't get why somebody can't do starburst stream (holding a sword in both hands and slashing really fast) whenever he/she desired. It's not like learning a magic spell, where you have to be awarded the ability to throw fireballs, starburst stream is merely a body motion. Why do you need permission to move your body a certain way? starburst stream, is 16 hit sword skill which is exclusive to dual blades remember the first ep introduction with kirito teaching klein the 1 hit sword skill "linear", you have to set yourself in motion to activate it and if you level up appropriately, you will have more skills to choose from like horizontal square etc. however they need a certain level/stat requirement to activate it dual blades skill is the requirement for you to be able to activate sword skills on both hands other sword skills are things like asuna's linear drive and verticle square |
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| Actually the first episode I liked. Nice moment where Asuna couldn't stop hugging Kirito. However I'm still very confused about the progression. They took 2 months to clear floor #1 and after 2 years they are are at... yeah, which floor? 70? Well, I'm gonna watch for a bit longer, however the music remains the best aspect of the show, just as expected of Kajiura Yuki. |
| Better nerf Kirito :D In my opinion best episode so far. Awsome fight between Kirito and boss, maybe a bit short but very intensive. That music makes everything even more epic, I haven't heard such good soundtrack for a long time. Hah, and I was just wondering what happened with his new sword :D Really badass skill, but why he's the only one player witch such ability? And of course that hug... awww, so heartwarming ^^ Love KiritoxAsuna relationship, I hope it will become much closer in the future. Can't wait to see the duel. |
| I was pretty stoked when he took out that Blue Eyes White Dragon. Zangief wins! Edit: The script has always been terrible, but it may have reached an all time low. Come on. "Let's duel." Shuuuut the fffffffffffffuhhh. |
JoshSep 2, 2012 6:31 PM
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| So,is the reason why only Kirito has Nitoryu being revealed anyime? |
| Nice fight! Kirito almost died... And i guess they are now a couple... |
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| There should be a Sword Art Online drinking game. Drink every time you see a cliche -> Wake up the next day on the floor. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| more screen time for klein! |
GrayArchon said: You can equip two swords, but without the dual blades skills, the skill won't active when you make the start motions I must have skipped this in the novel or something but I honestly don't remember anywhere that it says any player can just go an equip two swords at once in SAO. Note... that I said |
ZeroKamikaze said: Nah dw, I won't be bothered touching u guys anymore, I thought the flame was happened between some interesting guys, but for a reason you and your-friend(not calling out his name, cause I like that character in SAO and he took it as his name on MAL, *sigh) always turned up, I'm bored ^_^. just to clear the confusion, people can still holding 2 swords at the same time, but they won't be able to "dual wield", as I recall from the novel, person without a proper skill can try to imitate a skill, but without "system assist" of a proper skill, it is just a bunch of useless moves. |
| Holy hell, the best episode ever paul, where do you read the novel, do you know any fansub translating it? |
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| you can read the novel in bakatsuki http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Sword_Art_Online |
| ^Pretty much there. And still can't remember anything about anyone being able to hold 2 weapons. I can remember the imitating part but from what I've read and this episode, Dual Wield is a skill itself. |
| Well,I'm not going to waste my time reading through 24 pages of text that's most likely spoiler filled.Not for SAO. My thoughts on the episode: Good episode,3rd best so far.Action was great,music was amazing & we got to see my 2 most liked characters of this series (so far) in one episode:Klein & Liz :D (Funny thing is,I just finished re watching an episode of Uchuu Kyoudai before watching this one & it's funny doing a voice comparison of Hiroaki's characters in each respective series). I'm not much of a fan of the Kirito x Asuna pairing.Kirito is an alright character with some good moments (like the fight this episode) & Asuna..........sort of don't like her & sort of don't care for her.But whatever,I'll live with this pairing. 4.5/5 |
| My Devianart Oh & Space Brothers is still the best anime ever,in my opinion.Even when competing with Attack on Titan. |
| Compared to the most recent episodes this was a godsend and has me hyped for the next. |
| I don't like Asuna. Don't know why, but i just don't like her. Whenever she shows up i get an eye twitch. Aside from that, i liked this episode. Ryoutarou was the one character in this series i really liked, so seeing him appear again was a blast. The fight was good and Kirito's obvious strain from using Dual Blades was a nice touch to his otherwise cool and always in control character. |
| I love when Klein is in an episode... not only because he's a great character, but I get to hear "Mutta's" voice too! xD I enjoyed this. next week will be awesome... |
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| I like this anime too much. I don't want to wait another week for another episode ;( I enjoyed the episode mostly because, I didn't miss anything. Between the episodes there was no major time that had passed. |
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Master7432 said: Vyudali said: I don't like Asuna. Don't know why, but i just don't like her. Whenever she shows up i get an eye twitch. Aside from that, i liked this episode. Ryoutarou was the one character in this series i really liked, so seeing him appear again was a blast. The fight was good and Kirito's obvious strain from using Dual Blades was a nice touch to his otherwise cool and always in control character. You better drop the anime then; She's the main character and love interest for the next 14 episodes, although you probably won't see her after this arc too much, except for the end... Haha true that... you're not gonna have a fun time... unless you manage to somehow developing some like-age. |
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| Best episode since the first one. |
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ftghb said: best ep so far, but like someone earlier posted...the battle scenes here are just...weak....the epic fight showcasing his dual wield skill lasted all of what, 50 seconds? |
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ftghb said: the battle scenes here are just...weak....the epic fight showcasing his dual wield skill lasted all of what, 50 seconds? couldn't better agree with you.....it felt like this boss just stood there and took the hits...the boss on floor 1 was more pro-active and felt like a real boss |
Andyis said: Wow. What an annoying guild leader People should be able to join and leave guilds at will. Also, the leader better be strong. Leaders should be a ton stronger than his subbordinates but he seems like a weak douche who needs protection If you ever played an MMO like WoW, you don't just leave a guild, from one conflict with em, especially if you were there from the start, and you're in the top guild, they mow through content, so you probably going to stick around. And the leader of the guild isn't necessarily the most powerful, he is like a president, power is usually split among officers(ranged dps officers, tank officer, melee officers, healer officers etc.). But now, take thousands of people's lives at stake, this is a real world to them. Now if there is problems with the top guild's officer core, it can mess up progression, and the people relying on them, now are stuck, since the top guilds tend to have the best geared players. |
RockerXDSep 2, 2012 11:14 PM
| tbh, that fight was long enough, any longer and i would be wondering why the hell klein and asuna haven't stepped i to help him.....<_< also i was just one huge all out attack with him bearing the brunt of the bosses attacks and vice versa, kirito won by a small margin in the end though but it was only due to the army/asuna/klein shaving the bosses hp down and covering for him |
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| Now this episode is by far the best so far. It was great to see Klein again. Hilarious to see him freezing up and Kirito thought he was lagging. xD Klein acting all diligent towards Asuna and then Kirito punches him in the stomach lmao. Everyone's all jelly of Kirito. Asuna is an awesome girl though. :P Kovats was a complete selfish moron. Thinking they could defeat it and saying they won't retreat. Yeah they've got pride but seriously, you'd rather die than survive in an online virtual world? Teleportation Crystals don't work in the boss room either eh? Reminded Kirito of the time when Sachi and co. died in that secret room. Seeing Asuna unable to 'take it anymore' was simply awesome. She just had to do something about it but of course she didn't stand a chance. Kirito intervened and even his was struggling. The fight scenes were so damn good, music went well with it; gave such an epic godly vibe. :D 14:00 onwards is so damn epic omfg. Kirito with his Dual Wield skill and using Starburst Stream was so crazy. He defeated that Blue-Eyed Demon all by himself. And he barely survives with a little bit of HP left, geez. This episode foreshadowed a lot of Sachi moments, clearly showing that Kirito hasn't forgotten about her. Asuna was crying out to Kirito and first he imagined that it was Sachi. Damn, now I miss seeing Sachi even more. Haha Klein's jealous of Kirito being the only one with the dual wield skill. Who wouldn't be? Such an awesome and useful skill. Great to see Klein getting teary, he's such a great buddy. Asuna caring for Kirito so much was perfect. That tsundere obviously loves Kirito. It was also great to see a bit of Lisbeth again. :D Commander Heathcliff proposing a duel with Kirito using his dual wield skill: if he wins Asuna can leave the guild with Kirito and if he loses, he has to join the Knights of Blood guild. Damn I'm excited for the next episode. Kirito's gonna kick some ass. |
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| Well, that was rushed. But they kept all the cool parts in, so meh. The only thing, is I have no idea just how far they're getting into the novels. It seems to me like they will obviously at least cover the ALFheim arc. Well, frankly honest, I liked that arc better than the first volume anyway. |
| Hmm, the fighting was nice enough, though this boss fight was mainly what I expected. A nice touch there with the dual wield skill. As for next episode, I don't really know if Kirito is going to beat Heathcliff like he beat Kuradeel or if there's actually going to be some competition. Haven't really seen any strong characters besides Kirito who is like levels apart from the others. That said, this was still a good episode. |
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| The Asuna was ok. But everything else was done so poorly I was on the verge of tears. |
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| lol at Lizbeth appearing there. Unexpected anime-original content that I'm pretty happy to see. This episode was done ok. Could've been better. The main things that bothered me was when Klein got to the boss room, his other party members were nowhere to be seen. Also, Asuna's personality seems a bit flat to me. At least compared to the novels. Though even in the novels her personality lacked depth IMO. Oh, and the animation wasn't all that great during the fights. Overall still pretty rushed. |
5layerSep 3, 2012 2:29 AM
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| The leader of a big guild is a raging idiot. Kirito got his special snowflake exclusive power. With the negative things out of the way, this episode was actually not bad. I liked the flashbacks of Sachi, the music was awesome, and Asuna clinging onto Kirito for so long was cute. 4/5. |
| This episode was good... but it felt like it was too quick, everything happened too fast, and it felt like a 5-10 min episode .-. I guess time DOES fly by when you're having fun huh? =P |
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| Awesome Episode! Can't wait till next weeks :D I've been putting off reading the novels because I think I'd enjoy seeing them animated first, but right after the anime ends I'm going to read the novels, it'll be interesting how much they actually miss out in the anime. |
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| Best episode so far |
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| I kind like how the dual sword combo made the boss stall like fodder. The fight was way too short though. |
| Das Feenreich! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUvxzKt5GoM |
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